construct a dialogue between different petroleum products
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Interest in a dialogue between oil-producing and consuming countries has recently
been revived by a joint Franco-Venezuelan initiative convening an inter-
governmentd seminar in Paris on 1st and 2nd July, 1991.
This Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) report, A Dialogue between Oil
Producers and Consumers: the Why and the How, addresses in a free thinking way
the issues which lie behind this interest in a multilateral approach to the energy
problem, assesses regional and bilateral strategies which are proposed by other
parties as alternatives, and suggests an agenda for inter-governmental
discussions.
We argue that a distinction needs to be made between a dialogue and a binding
international agreement. The dialogue should be conducted with an open mind
and the aim of finding out whether multilateral arrangements are relevant to the
solution of the problems at hand, not with the intention of negotiating &om the
start such an agreement.
The problem is defined as oil price instability together with its corollary, sharp
variations in the revenues of developing oil-producing countries. Two types of
instabdity are distinguished; the first refers to discontinuous and significant
changes in the oil price level, and the second to normal day-to-day market
fluctuations. In the past twenty years oil prices moved from one to a very
different level on three occasions as a result of shocks. Some are caused by
political disturbances; some by economic behaviour, either the investment cycle or
aggressive competition for market shares; some by both.
The effects of big shocks are often very damaging. They can cause economic
recession in the world at large or destabilize oil-producing countries in the third
worId. Shocks due to political disturbances cannot be avoided by means of
international energy policy; shocks caused by economic factors are avoidable; and
in both cases adverse effects can be significantly mitigated.
Can the oil market heIp in this respect? This report argues that the market plays
a very useful, yet imperfect, role in allocating resources in the short run but is
unable to provide appropriate price signals for investment decisions that influence
the oil supply/demand balance in the long run.
Peculiar features of oil economics, namely a very low cost floor for crude oil
production and a very high price ceiling set by substitutes, mean that the setting
of an oil price level is a fairly arbitrary affair. As the market does not get much
guidance &om economics on where the level should be, it seeks cues from
elsewhere.
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